Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:21:41 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-ePSXe Makefile Message-ID: <20040217141514.T21420@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20040217091604.GA12283@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200402162335.i1GNZq5H081683@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040217091604.GA12283@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > From > > <URL:http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-4-latest/linux-epsxe-1.6.0.log>; > > it looks like the problem is that bento is doing a pkg_add of a linux-gtk > > package which has a dependency on linux_base 7.1. In my experience, the > > linux-gtk port works fine with either linux_base 7.1 or linux_base 8.0. > > I marked the linux_base 8.0 port RESTRICTED, so most users won't be > > installing it from a package. I think that really very few users would > > suffer from this problem. A solution would be to include the GTK+ library > > in the linux_base 7.1 port/package, like I did with linux_base 6.1. That > > was unpopular. > > The default linux_base package is currently still 7.1, so maybe > linux-gtk should default to depend on that. It does; that is part of the problem. > We can't make 8.0 the > default linux_base as long as it's restricted anyway (think CD > installs). Changing the default linux_base won't help. > > If this port is removed, the problem will still remain. There are other > > ports, and unported software, that are affected. Maybe > > MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD would be a decent workaround. > > I'm less happy with that workaround..there should be a way to solve > this properly. Including the GTK+ library in the linux_base 7.1 port/package, as I suggested, is a proper way to solve it. Another would be to enhance the packaging utilities so they can parse information like "linux-gtk port works fine with either linux_base 7.1 or linux_base 8.0". NetBSD has this capability. -- Trevor Johnson
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